Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle Reviews
Review score: 9.2/10 – Updated September, 2024
Latest Price: £43.99 – Save 41% (RRP: £74.99)
Take a look now to discover what makes Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle worthy of a review score of 9.2 out of 10.
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Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle features
Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle
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Spec 1
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Colour: Tan Other Saddles found with this Spec: 5 |
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Spec 2
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Size: 146mm Wide Other Saddles found with this Spec: 4 |
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Spec 3
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Gender: Unisex Other Saddles found with this Spec: 2527 |
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Spec 4
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Option: FeC alloy Rails Other Saddles found with this Spec: 14 |
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Feature 1
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Weight: 280g Other Saddles found with this feature: 10 |
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Feature 2
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Rails: FeC alloy, 7mm Other Saddles found with this feature: 2 |
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Feature 3
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Width: 146mm Other Saddles found with this feature: 3 |
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Feature 4
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Length: 275mm Other Saddles found with this feature: 7 |
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Feature 5
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Covering in breathable full-grain leather Other Saddles found with this feature: 3 |
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Feature 6
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Differentiated-thickness padding Other Saddles found with this feature: 2 |
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Feature 7
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Shell made from Nylon N6 Other Saddles found with this feature: 2 |
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Price
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£43.99 |
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Number of Reviews
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4 |
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Review Score
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4.8 / 5 Average score in category: 4.4/5 |
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Quality
Quality is without doubt one of the most important factors that we consider when buying bikes, parts, accessories or clothing. As you’d imagine it’s especially important when buying Saddles. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle.
The first thing is material. Looking at what Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle is made of will give you a really good idea of the quality overall. Take a look at the specs above and you should be able to see the material. It’s then up to you to decide if it meets your expectation.
Similarly you’ll also want to spend some time looking at the features too. Again the table above, listing the features will give you a really good overview. However you should think about the sort of features that you’d expect when buying new Saddles. It’s worth writing a list of the “must-have” features so that you don’t end up compromising and missing some important features, or alternatively end up buying an unnecessarily high specced product.
There’s also a lot of merit in checking out the brand of the product and looking at the various brands that are selling Saddles. Brands like Selle Italia are of courses extremely well respected in the cycling community so you know you’re getting a fantastic product with them. But if you’re undecided on your product you should write up a list of brands that you’d be happy to buy. It’s a great way of filtering and narrowing down the number of products when you’re searching.
Next up you’ll want to think about the price and use that as a guide to set your expectations of the quality. If you’re buying the cheapest of the options in the Saddles category you should probably expect it to not be of as good quality as the most expensive. It sounds obvious of course. But this is where you can get a bit clever and use your combination of features, specs, materials and other factors to work together to get a really good quality product at the best price. We often draw up a list of “must-haves” and use these as filters when shopping online so that you’re only seeing products that meet your criteria. You can then sort by Price>Low to get the best deals.
Comparing Prices
Price, as you would imagine, is the most popular reason for someone buying one product over another. It is the single most important factor in choosing the majority of products we buy. The same goes for Saddles.
It’s at this stage of the buying process, when you’re looking at different options, that you should set a budget. Do some research to understand how much roughly you can expect to pay for the sort of level of product that you’re looking for. Then match that to your own personal circumstance and how much you can afford to spend. This will really help you in narrowing down the right product for you.
Price of Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle
So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle.
We run regular scans across the web to find the best prices for the products that we review, from a range of cycling retailers. The best price we managed to find Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £43.99 in our latest search.
Based on this price we’ve scored it 8.5 out of 10 for price.
Average price of Saddles
Next we wanted to look at how much you can expect to pay, on average, for Saddles.
We found 596 in the Saddles category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £91.63, making it below average at £43.99.
It’s sometimes helpful to look at how much the prices can vary. Especially when setting yourself a budget, or when trying to understand just how much you could spend on Saddles. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £424.00, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £2.99.
With 596 products available we worked out that 476 cost more than Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle and 119 were cheaper.
Cost of Selle Italia products
At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 136 products from Selle Italia, of which 129 were in the Saddles category.
For now though we’re looking at Selle Italia branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £103.35 making this product below average.
You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Selle Italia product we found was £8.06 and the highest price we could find from them was £424.00.
Of the 136 from Selle Italia, 108 were more expensive than Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle and 27 were cheaper.
How much are Selle Italia Saddles?
We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Selle Italia products that are listed in the Saddles category.
The average price of the 129 products that match this search was £107.83, with the cheapest coming in at £8.99 and highest price was £424.00. With the average being £107.83, Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle comes in below average.
108 products that meet this search were more expensive than Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle and 20 were cheaper.
Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle Reviews
Reading reviews is an amazing way of getting a good feel for a product without actually being able to try it or see it first.
There are two different types of reviews, and we also recommend reading both.
1. Expert reviews – In the cycle industry there are loads of really reliable trusted resources for expert reviews. For example if you’re looking to buy a new bike, BikeRadar Bike Reviews are great.
2. Customer reviews – these are probably your best resource for information. There’s no finances or influence involved, they’re purely just honest reviews from customers that have bought and used the product. The reason we love customer reviews so much is because no matter if their view is good or bad, there’s a very good chance that it will be honest and unbiased.
Our best advice is to head over to Chain Reaction Cycles and read the Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle reviews there.
Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 9.5 out of 10. The average review score for all products in the Saddles category at Chain Reaction Cycles is 4.4 out of 5.
Owner reviews, as we say, are one of the most important pieces of research that we can do before we buy. So, with that in mind, if you do go on to buy Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle or another similar product, like Funn Launch II Saddle reviews or SDG Ti-Fly Storm AW Saddle reviews we’d love you to leave a review in the comments below. It will really help future buyers just like you, when they’re looking to buy Saddles.
Brand
As we said in the pricing part of the review, brand is a really important consideration, but especially so when looking to buy Saddles. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with Selle Italia, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.
YouTube Video of Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle
Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle reviews.
Summary
Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle. We’d say that as long as it fits your budget and meets your expectations in terms of features/spec…it’s a really strong contender. That’s why we’ve scored it a massive 9.2/10 overall.
Further product details
- Product ID 1: 25010933449
- Product ID 2: 262192UK
- Brand: Selle Italia
- Model number: SD30T
- RRP: £74.99
- EAN: 8030282375499
- Description: Selle Italia Turbo 1981 SaddleCreated in 1980, the Turbo was the first fully-anatomic saddle, a landmark in the history of Selle Italia and an international success. Only two years after its launch it was already the saddle of choice for world-famous cyclists such as the late (great) Fignon, Lemond and Indurain.Selle Italia has now re-launched the Turbo with all the characteristics of the original.Features:Weight: 280gRails: FeC alloy, 7mmWidth: 146mmLength: 275mmCovering in breathable full-grain leatherDifferentiated-thickness paddingShell made from Nylon N6Buy Selle Italia Components from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
- Full Category: Components > Saddles
- Savings percentage from RRP: 41%
- Size: 146mm Wide
- Unisex
- 31
- Adult
Other options for Saddles
As you’d imagine there are so many options out there when buying Saddles. 596 in fact.
A few of our other favourites that we spotted when researching Selle Italia Turbo 1981 Saddle included,
SDG Allure Cro-Mo Saddle reviews, Brooks England B17 Carved Short Saddle reviews, or we really liked the look of Selle Italia SLR XC MTB Saddle reviews as another alternative.